So I'm 100% convinced and agreed to your statement that "the term cryptocurrency is abused and confusing in mainstream". Ok. Next then I did some googling just to check any reference related to the word "cryptocurrency" and to my no surprise cryptocurrency word was never used any time before early 2017 and that was the time of shitcoins .
I believe you're mistaken. It was used fairly often (even the graph you show shows a small bump). It *was* a much smaller community though. Indeed, cryptocurrency.com was registered in 2009. Bitcoin:
"A Bitcoin is a electronic payment system of the world where gravity is so strong that nothing—paper money or even governments such as Central Banks—can escape from it.
The theory of cryptography predicts that a sufficiently compact mass (21million coins) can decentralize governments to form a new world."
I don't believe cryptography predicts any such thing. In fact, that you use it that way makes me think you don't have a clear idea of what "cryptography" is. This is not an attack, I just think you possibly need to gain a broader knowledge of the things you're talking about. |
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I remember signature campaigns that paid 0.1 BTC per week....remember PayCoin? Before GAW went completely rotten? I THINK I got 0.33 BTC for running their chain for a week or so ..so they could setup POS with my 2013 KNC Jupiter Miner I had to 'dust off' after a couple years..the last hurrah...everyone mined for PayCoin...I mined it on some exchange for BTC direct.. Wow....hell I used to send you like 1.5 BTC to fix various lots of KNC equipment ....hope you kept it  Brad I used to mine a bit for the lulz. I jumped around a little bit and I've been going back the past few days in case I left anything lying around. Found a small but not insignificant sum of BTC on multipool but also all kind of shitcoins, some in the thousands of coins currently hanging out at a couple of bucks total. Not even worth the effort to work out how to cash them in TBH. I wish I'd left my miner running a bit longer. Though it was definitely not worth the electricity, it would have paid off. But then again, so would buying Bitcoin with the dollars. |
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Much. Even better if it is augmented by end-to-end oldschool encryption (GnuPG/PGP). Which however entails making your public key widely available via a key server, but being ready to revocate it if for any reason it should become compromised. In short: key management is still a hassle.
Indeed, most of the big e-mail clients have end-to-end built in. However, as said, using it is a pain and even just signing my emails, I ran into problems with shittily configured email servers silently dropping my emails. |
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Yeah ofcourse .... on a world avg would one btc at current prices be enough to buy an avg house ?
Perhaps a better measure would be that 1BTC is plenty to *build* a decent house. It's usually the land that is the stinger. |
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Schools should be pushed into platform-agnosticism. Public schools should be almost forced into OS/FOSS (if they like their public funding, that is). There. I said it. Does this make me a socialist?  Open standards should be a requirement at a minimum. Propping up a corporate monopoly should not be something the government is doing. However, I'm not sure how far down on the list of "things that the government shouldn't be doing but is" that actually is in the last couple of years. |
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I feel like a jerk to say that, but those who trust their email to an Outlook server almost deserve it. When will they learn?
Companies are having a hard time getting away from Microsoft. There are open source solutions for all Microsoft products, but employees often don't want to adapt. It's also a legal and insurance issue for some companies that require regular audits because Microsoft products have a better reputation than solutions from lesser known open source vendors. It's less employees, who typically must do what they're told and more employers and managers. As well as an undeserved reputation vs other products, there's also "nobody got fired for buying Microsoft" and the idea that if something goes wrong, there is someone to sue. However, Microsoft has lots of lawyers and a deep war chest as companies have often found out to their detriment.
How does word soup like this get published? Blockchain Professor Gary Gensler, nominee by President Biden to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), words when asked how he will approach technology and digital assets is a worry says Ran after the soon to be SEC chairman, who will decide if Bitcoin gets an ETF and the USA adopts cryptocurrency, said the commission will be technology neutral (3:40).
Those things are neat. I need to get mine back in commission. It stopped erasing the previous display.
I helped a friend some time ago to buy a cheap notebook and setup Ubuntu on it for his daughter. Yesterday he showed me a letter from the school that she needs a Win10 Pro Notebook so that she can use O360 which all the lessons are based on.
Put win10 on a VM. Depending on your morals, you could don an eyepatch. (That doesn't really affect the point of what you're saying but fighting back always helps). |
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 I have no idea if it is or not but it's been too long since we had some Ron Paul. |
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Speaking of something completely and utterly unrelated to the bitcoin price >ahem< 1.9 trillion "Stimulus" bill just passed. At the current price, you could buy 39.3 million Bitcoins with that.
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Read "Expanse" or watch it on Amazon Prime-it's actually pretty good, mostly.
Obviously, outer space is in advantageous position vs Earth as earth sits in the gravitational well.
Besides, shooters in a high position almost always win-depicted in so many movies
..some say that this understanding led to a eventual win of Homo sapiens over Homo neaderthalensis.
And Obi-Wan over Anakin. |
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Thats not a FIAT, it's an ABARTH. (at least the logo)
Ugh. Right you are. Search lied to me and I picked it cause it was the most photogenic.  |
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Hello. SaveMotherTeresa went bullish.  Fiat  |
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Not really mindrusted. I'm sure you've heard mindrust's story?  It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. |
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I had a kind of "friend" pestering me the other day about some matters that would have irritated me a lot more previously in terms of some "treats" that I could buy her, and I gave almost no resistance to her irritating desire to use me as an ATM, and I said o.k. Let's go get those "things you absolutely need," and almost amazing how "happy" she was for a couple of days.. even though hardly any skin off my back, relatively speaking I did not even really mind very much... and probably 4-5 years ago, I would have not spent money in that way, and I probably would have been a bit bothered by being solicited in that direction.
Oh, that reminds me, I had another "friend" who wanted to go shopping with me, and she had some particular items in mind that she "really needed." I just made up some various excuses because I did not want to go shopping, and I also made up a kind of reason that she needed to receive the money (because it was "very important to me too" blah blah blah), and then I gave her like twice the amount of money that she told me that she would need for such item(s), and at the same time, I was "saved" from going shopping... still funny about the whole situation.. and really not any kind of inconvenience for me.. maybe less inconvenient than going shopping with her and then trying to figure out how to keep her within budget when in this case, in current times, the amount felt like pocket change to me, but more than double of what she was expecting...
Sorry to say you've just made a rod for your own back. Two of em. |
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Or TV signals: Our TV signals used to be easy to spot: A massive signal spike (the sync signal) followed by colorburst, then the X and Y of the scan line. Easy to spot, very repeating pattern, can't be nature made, obvious sign of intelligence. However now we have switched over to HDTV which is not only digital but encrypted digital so the stuff looks like background noise. And it's much lower power because once again efficient.
Yes. I believe if I recall my information theory lectures correctly, at the limits of compression, information is indistinguishable from noise. Anything that doesn't look like noise is a candidate for more compression. In addition, broadcasting is inefficient and as our technology has improved, point-to-point communication has become realistic (in a similar way to the lighting. Indeed, I believe some places are beginning to experiment with conditional lighting where, for example, highway lighting only comes on when cars are actually using it and turn off when the roads are empty). |
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Just produce stuff off-planet and send it in. Launch trash towards the sun.
Ironically, it takes a lot of energy to drop stuff into the sun. Ah, just leave it on earth and it will eventually be gobbled up and vapourized. No need for drastic measures now. THis is a person who is taking a really long term view on the issue :-) Of course, in the mid-to-long term, our buried trash is probably going to be mined for all the useful stuff we threw away. |
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Can't you just point it there, fire a thruster, and let it go it's course? (I mean, calculate where it should end up, but yeah, basically go towards the sun.)
Nope. I think Larry Niven covered this too, prolific guy. You either speed it up, which takes it to a higher orbit or slow it down which takes it to a lower orbit. To take it to an orbit low enough to burn up in the sun, you need to slow it down the whole amount that the earth is orbiting the sun (about 67000 mph). There's a little bit of fudge in this due to eliptical orbits and drag from the sun's atmosphere but that's the basic principle. Essentially anything you fire into the sun is going to get there on a spiral path. |
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Just produce stuff off-planet and send it in. Launch trash towards the sun.
Ironically, it takes a lot of energy to drop stuff into the sun. |
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Seems straightforward then. We bulldoze San Francisco and cover it in solar panels. |
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